There are so many things wrong here, and sadly, they are all things that are wrong with me. I can't even begin to actually review this collection of political poems. Firstly, I feel like this is really a set of poetry which would have been EXTREMELY powerful in the time period and place when it was written, which was more than 20 years before I was born. Or, it would have a great deal of meaning if I was really familiar with South American history. Which I also am not. And lastly, it was just hard for me to wrap my head around some of the subject matter in the poems, particularly Neruda's overt bromance with Fidel Castro...

Read the rest of my review here:
http://thevegbrarian.blogspot.ca/2013/06/about-10000-leagues-over-my-head-its.ht... ( )

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